Nick Beckstead

PROGRAM OFFICER AT OPEN PHILANTHROPY

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Nick oversees a substantial part of Open Philanthropy’s work on global catastrophic risk reduction. Open Philanthropy's team has made over $250 million in grants in this area since 2015. 

Previously, Nick developed Open Philanthropy’s grantmaking programme to accelerate scientific progress, was a research fellow with the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, and completed a PhD on the overwhelming importance of shaping the long-term future.